Overview

• Opening statements kicked off the trial on July 15, with a 15-member jury seated in Arapahoe County District Court.
• Prosecutors contend James Craig deliberately laced his wife Angela’s protein shakes with arsenic, tetrahydrozoline and cyanide to mask a murder as illness or suicide.
• Key evidence includes Craig’s digital searches for undetectable poisons, online orders of arsenic and cyanide, home surveillance footage and the coroner’s finding of acute cyanide and tetrahydrozoline poisoning with subacute arsenic.
• Craig also faces charges of soliciting a fellow inmate to kill the lead investigator and of plotting to fabricate false testimony.
• Defense attorneys have disputed the forensic conclusions, challenged the credibility of jailhouse informants and allege investigative tunnel vision as testimony from experts unfolds.